About the book
This anthology captures the bold evolution of contemporary Romanian poetry, where deeply rooted local sensibilities meet a global literary vision. With original translations from Romania, it offers English-speaking readers a rare opportunity to experience a new wave of cosmopolitan, boundary-crossing verse.
After joining the EU, over the last decade, as a consequence of both the free cultural exchange with Western Europe and with the world in general, facilitated by the new technologies and the social media, Romanian poetry evolved significantly, fusing a sort of emerging \"global poetics\" with its strong local neo-realistic cosmopolitan sensitivity.
The poems included in the anthology by highly-accomplished younger Romanian poets bear witness to a poetics rooted in Romania but with branches spreading all across Europe and the Americas. The poems included in the book are all original translations from Romanian and have been specially prepared for this anthology.
This is an extraordinary collection that will appeal to a many types of poetry readers.
Editions of Pain Is a Foreign Country
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781592116041
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This anthology captures the bold evolution of contemporary Romanian poetry, where deeply rooted local sensibilities meet a global literary vision. With original translations from Romania, it offers English-speaking readers a rare opportunity to experience a new wave of cosmopolitan, boundary-crossing verse.
After joining the EU, over the last decade, as a consequence of both the free cultural exchange with Western Europe and with the world in general, facilitated by the new technologies and the social media, Romanian poetry evolved significantly, fusing a sort of emerging \"global poetics\" with its strong local neo-realistic cosmopolitan sensitivity.
The poems included in the anthology by highly-accomplished younger Romanian poets bear witness to a poetics rooted in Romania but with branches spreading all across Europe and the Americas. The poems included in the book are all original translations from Romanian and have been specially prepared for this anthology.
This is an extraordinary collection that will appeal to a many types of poetry readers.
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This anthology captures the bold evolution of contemporary Romanian poetry, where deeply rooted local sensibilities meet a global literary vision. With original translations from Romania, it offers English-speaking readers a rare opportunity to experience a new wave of cosmopolitan, boundary-crossing verse.
After joining the EU, over the last decade, as a consequence of both the free cultural exchange with Western Europe and with the world in general, facilitated by the new technologies and the social media, Romanian poetry evolved significantly, fusing a sort of emerging \"global poetics\" with its strong local neo-realistic cosmopolitan sensitivity.
The poems included in the anthology by highly-accomplished younger Romanian poets bear witness to a poetics rooted in Romania but with branches spreading all across Europe and the Americas. The poems included in the book are all original translations from Romanian and have been specially prepared for this anthology.
This is an extraordinary collection that will appeal to a many types of poetry readers.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Pain Is a Foreign Country?
Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Poetry / Poems > Modern and contemporary poetry / poems
Where can I read a sample of Pain Is a Foreign Country?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781592116041
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Pain Is a Foreign Country?
Paul Doru Mugur
Who is the Publisher of the book Pain Is a Foreign Country?
Histria Books
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Pain Is a Foreign Country is available as paperback(ISBN 9781592116041)
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